Letters To Cleo

Oh I can't take another heartache
Though you say you're my friend
I'm at my wits end
You say your love is bona fide
But that don't coincide
With the things that you do
And when I ask you to be nice
You say you gotta be

Cruel to be kind, in the right measure
Cruel to be kind, it's a very good sign
Cruel to be kind, means that I love you
Baby (you gotta be cruel)
You gotta be cruel to be kind

Well I do my best to understand dear
But you still mystify, and I wanna know why
I pick myself up off the ground
To have you knock me back down
Again and again
And when I ask you to explain
You say you gotta be

Cruel to be kind, in the right measure
Cruel to be kind, it's a very good sign
Cruel to be kind, means that I love you
Baby (you gotta be cruel)
You gotta be cruel to be kind

Well I do my best to understand dear
But you still mystify, and I wanna know why
I pick myself up off the ground
To have you knock me back down
Again and again
And when I ask you to explain
You say you gotta be

Cruel to be kind, in the right measure
Cruel to be kind, it's a very good sign
Cruel to be kind, means that I love you
Baby (you gotta be cruel)
You gotta be cruel to be kind

(Cruel to be kind), in the right measure
(Cruel to be kind), it's a very, very, very good sign
(Cruel to be kind), means that I love you
Baby (you gotta be cruel)
You gotta be cruel to be kind

I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm begging you to beg me

I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me

I'll shine up my old brown shoes
I'll put on a brand new shirt
I'll get home early from work
If you say that you love me

Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?
Feeling all alone without a friend you know you feel like dying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?

I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm begging you to beg me
I'll shine up my old brown shoes
I'll put on a brand new shirt
I'll get home early from work
If you say that you love me

Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?
Feeling all alone without a friend you know you feel like dying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?

Hey

Feeling all alone without a friend you know you feel like dying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?

I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm begging you to beg me

I want you to want me
I want you to want me
I want you to want me
I want you to want meeeee

so you'd trade me in for them when they're so
mean i wouldn't do that if i were you why would
you say all those love things when you knew
you'd leave i wouldn't say that if i were you
alouette and me i don't want to know you lately
alouette and me why did you go ruin everything
in a dream i held my head up but i'm not brave
let them see it what you've done stultifier you're
such a liar you should be so ashamed let them
see it what you've done alouette and me but
it's alright and i'm not mad even thought i'm not
there for you no more alouette and me just
mark off the territory it's the strangest thing it
doesn't hurt but i won't forget the sting but it's
alright and i'm not mad even though i'm not
there for you no more

the anchor is a kickstand so i'm taking you down
with me to the wrong side of the quicksand and
our flashlight destiny you can be the walker i'm
gonna be your wire you can be the ugly truth
i'm gonna be your liar still the future lit up so
bright for all to see i can't look now you're all the
same you're all the same to me up and away
up and away the anchor is a kickstand so i'm
taking you down with me to the wrong side of the
quicksand and our flashlight destiny it's all wrong
we tripped along so much worse off for it and
only god can help the one who put the magnets
in you head up and away up and away with you
if i could just get up i'd be fine if i could just get up

i can stand here and do this again, i can see it but where to begin,
i know that i'm caving in, cause' i'm heavy i'm heavy, so the wonder of you
is done, i'm tired and bloodied and good to be gone, i know that you did
me wrong, cause i'm ready i'm ready, as for the part about having something
more, let's not pretend that it's like it was before, and i wish i could say
that it's not because of you but it's because of you,

i had a dark and snowy rememberance of this but remind me again of what i'm
gonna miss, when all you do is let me down, you better tell me something and
tell it to me now, as for the part about having something more, let's not
pretend that it's like it was before, and i wish i could say that it's not
because of you but it's because of you,

and are you sorry? as for the part about having something more, let's not
pretend that it's like it was before, i wish i could say that it's not
because of you but it's all because of you, and it's all because of you,
the light went out and i got scared

everybody says that you're no good
i don't pay attention
it doesn't matter though i know it should
i don't pay attention
so what's the use when it never ends
and you're singular it's true
so much for them
who cares about my friends

be my co-pilot
come be in my dream
you looked so beautiful there
just like a part of you
that makes a part of me seem...

everybody tries so hard to bring me down
i don't pay attention
no it's doesn't matter
i can hardly hear a sound
and i don't pay attention
because number one
i'm good with you
and the way you look at me
is number to
so what else would i do

be my co-pilot
come be in my dream
you looked so beautiful there
just like a part of you
it makes a part of me seem...

seem like a one way track
i feel like i could float away...

so what's the use when it never ends
and you're singular it's true
who cares about my friends

be my co-pilot
come be in my dream
you looked so beautfil there
just like a part of you
it makes a part of me seem...

take a ride co-pilot
shimmer on in my dream

what would you do for me my sweet cherubic
baby ideally way up high and lovely but i had
a thought that i'n not waiting for you anymore
i'm astral crystalline pure though you could
disappear tomorrow who would care it's not like
the retribution would end there you could
disappear tell us a story tell us all about your
heavenly life in deatil and don't leave out a
word i'm listening all growed up stepford son
don't ever change and don't go away too quiet
ever to be heard buy you could disappear
tomorrow who would care it's not like retribution
would end there you could disapper tomorrow
but just let me make it clear so keep your eyes
down low and keep very still hands up

once i knew this boy you wanted what you could
get if you wanted is so bad why did you go and
take it out in trade instead my momma cried she
shook and wandered off to a different place
my daddy couldn't make things bettter then if he
couldn't say it wait around and maybe i'll forget
about it after awhile instead i like to think ahead
'til they find you dead skipping out on god is
bad but not worse than mitigating it that's why
i don't make the time to hope and pray so i'm
just gonna shine in the brillance of the only one
who's gotten you behind wait around... 'til i find
a bag and get my turn in effigy you'll burn

say it's a good clip is a real good way to go
real fast say it i'm on track and i'm built for speed
pull up the back on your mark ready set go
teaser with pretty lines with shiny glass and
perfect time ease up against my spine because
there's still a million miles to climb on your mark go
would i do what it takes if it would shut you off?
now don't be so sure but don't make me have
to find out i feel lucky you look nice i'm not gonna
say it twice you're in my car now say it a good
clip is a real good way to go real fast could i do
what it takes if it would shut you off? now don't
be so sure but don't make me have to find out i
fell lucky you look nice and i'm gonna say it twice
you're in my car now

that's the greatest picture i have ever seen
so i stole it for myself so you could see just what i mean
and this alluvial fan it represents
my life i've got the strength to move
but why should i
i got time
i got time

that's the greatest
story i have heard so far
lilies in the toilet spider
driving motor cars
all the evidence would seem
to point out that i'm just another choke in your
wheels and that you got me trapped
i got time
i got time

you take the weight off the heavy notion
i'll take the wave from coast to ocean
that's why the ride is light
it's all alright
it's alright

this alluvial fan it represents my life
i've got the strength to move
but why should i
you take the weight off the heavy notion
and i'll... i got time
it's what i got

it would be nice to know everything
but i never said i did
and now that i'm a moving target
with nothing to admit
what will i find when i cross that line
for now it's fine
just say goodnight

though it would be a kick to get my way
but i hardly ever do
and the closest that i ever get is
nothing on you

like what happened when i said
you'd never go
but now i know

that
i'm a fool
to think that you
could ever be that true
so you decide
i'm not a child
and somehow i'll get by

and now just think for a minute
what you said and
then about what you've done
and i'll think about your other girls
and how i want to be the only one

make a plan
figure out where you stand
and see it through
just make your move

i'm a fool
to think that you
could ever be that true
now you decide
i'm not a child
and somehow i'll get by

i don't care what you say
i don't care what you do
i don't care what you say
i don't care what you do
just make it me
just make it me

A good girl always knows what's right
Don't forget your keys now
don't be late

I'm told that if you last the night
they'll make you drown or float
just wait
be more like a fire than a firefly
cuz that's the best way to be happy

sparklegirl
it's clear there's an awful lot to fear
that so up
and I wont try to slow down
but I gotta get there first
or be buried

it's not like us
to say we told you so
it's no like life
to be that fair

sparklegirl it's clear
there's an awful lot to fear
that's so up

sparklegirl it's clear
there's an awful lot to fear
that's so up

and i won't try to slow you down
but i've gotta get there first
or be buried

that was my heart when time was a seed tell
me what it means we made it out okay but
soon it turned to dust tell me what it means cut
it out and get off the floor because it doesn't
make you matter more veda very shining who
will you wait up for life love heaven death is that
what makes you such a mess veda very shining
at the well and out of luck you said "i've had
enough" still you couldn't make a man out of me
is that such a bad disease just cut it out and get
off the floor becasue it doesn't make you matter
more veda very shining and who will you wait up
for love life heaven death is that what makes
you such a mess veda very shining you're not
real and yet you seem familiar if that's what you
want if that's what you want that was my heart
when time was a seed... tell me what it means cut
it out get off the floor

Can I touch you, are you out of touch
I guess I never noticed that much
Geranium lover, I'm live on your wire
Come and take me whoever you are

She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
She's a lot like you
Come on and hold me tight

Inside angel, always upset
Keeps on forgetting that we ever met
Can I bring you out in the light
My curiosity's got me tonight

She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
She's a lot like you
Come on and hold me tight
The museum directors with their high shaking heads
They kick white shadows until they play dead
They want to crack your crosswoird smile
Can I take you out for awhile

She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
She's a lot like you
Come on and hold me tight...

Can I touch you, are you out of touch
I guess I never noticed that much
Geranium lover, I'm live on your wire
Come and take me whoever you are

She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
She's a lot like you
Come on and hold me tight

Inside angel, always upset
Keeps on forgetting that we ever met
Can I bring you out in the light
My curiosity's got me tonight

She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
She's a lot like you
Come on and hold me tight
The museum directors with their high shaking heads
They kick white shadows until they play dead
They want to crack your crosswoird smile
Can I take you out for awhile

She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
She's a lot like you
Come on and hold me tight...

So the sky is crumbling. I am not afraid 'cause you see
this too. So my hands are shaking. I am not afraid
'cause you've got it bad. I was counting all the monsters
I am ever going to be and I was falling a thousand miles
an hour swirling around, the only sound was Acid Jed.
If this were the last day and this mind were not mine,
then I can't be ruined and that's 'cause you're all mine.
So the sky is. So my hands are.

I guess it's been awhile and a long time too.
Everything's still the same and so are you. It's only in
this light that I could see what you'd be like. If it took a
million years, well, this is what I am. You're awake and
I'm asleep and we are so complete that way. You're
asleep and I'm awake and everything is so great. Everything is
so great. Oh yea. Heavy. I wash my hands of you. I
wash my dirty feet too. And when I wash my hair the
dust clouds disappear. You're leaning out the window,
you're beating down [the] a path real slow with your heavy
plastic bags and heavy head.
You're awake... (I wish we had a laugh but you're just
not funny. Baby, I'm leaving out the irony.
You're awake.)

What say you demon, [what] say you demon rock of what
I'm the rock of Gibraltar. [What] say you demon so say
what. If you think of it then you should know if I'm
getting kind of low. If you think of it then you should
know if I'm getting kind of low. You [make] made the sunshine.
[Then] you take my air to breathe. [If I'm gonna] And I let you
back again tell me what does that make me? If you
think of it... If it was me you wanted [then] why don't
you just say so.

(Hello, how are you?) Do What You Want, Yeah.

Why you gotta sit in my easychair. What makes you
think that I would care? When I say to you - what are
you going to do? So I got you to at least say please, that's
how I know that you're on your knees. But I'm thinking
too. What am I gonna do. To not take the fast way it evens
out every time. God how I love a boy on the go and what
you've got I just have to know. [And] 'cause what else is there to
say [when] it's such a sunny day. So I got you to at least
say please that's how I know that you're on you knees. But
I'm thinking too, baby, are we through? To not take the
fast way it evens out every time.

Ten thousand years have passed and [it] don't matter
much to him that ten thousand years have passed
before. There's nothing he can't do. Nothing he won't
say. 'Cause don't you know he knows it anyway. He's got an
answer for everything. So if you want to know about
landlocked countries in Asia under the strong-arm
hold of Buddhists, it's Nepal. He's got an answer.

It's okay that you forget. It's alright
that you don't wanna remember.
In your hands you've got a martyr's head,
in your mind,
I know that's what you wish you were.
Turn my blue sky black,
you're such a hard luck baby. Yeah.
That's what's the matter with you.
But I could sleep through this.
I am mystified as I am in it.
If that's your ride, well then you ought to get it.
It's just as if I wasn't dreaming.
It's all the same,
'cause I still wake up screaming.

Turn my blue sky black
you're such a hard luck baby. Yeah.
That's what's the matter with you.
But I could sleep through this.

You're pilgrim in the boxcar.
You can never look back too far.
You can't ever look back.
...

Turn my blue sky black
you're such a hard luck baby. Yeah.
That's what's the matter with you.
But I could sleep through anything..

wanna [want to] remember. In your hands you've got a
martyr's head, in your mind, I know that's what you
wish you were. Turn my blue sky black, you're such
a hard luck baby. Yeah. That's what's the matter with you.
But I could sleep through this. I am mystified as I
am in it. If that's your ride, well then you ought to get
it. It's just as if I wasn't dreaming. It's all the same,
'cause I still wake up screaming. Turn my blue sky
black... You're pilgrim in the boxcar. You can never
look back too far. You can't ever look back.
Turn my blue... I could sleep through anything

Started out with defeat. Everyone was asleep. And now
you know that it's time to make up you mind like me.
Now I'm not one to complain but you're driving me
insane. And now you know that it's time to make up
your mind like me. Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer, Open
up your door. If there could be last bliss; well here's the
one you missed and now you know that it's time to
make up your mind like me. Jennifer...

It's getting harder to believe I've gotta go, but I don't
want to leave. You've got your mortality on your sleeve.
And if I'm something you've outgrown, you think that
maybe I'd have know. God I wish I'd just known. I want
you to be like me. It would be so easy if you'd just
agree. [I] I've chucked it all out in the past 'cause you're the
one I want at last you are the one for me. I want you to
be...

Little Rosa was gonna shine. Little Rosa had a real
bad time. She was not like anyone else. She never
will. Little Rosa the boys let her know she's just not
that way she don't put on a show for nobody. Not
even you. She gonna sit alone. Why would you
make her feel so small that she'd just disappear

I was on you side and I can't believe that it's coming
back to haunt me. You were on that side too and I
can't, no I can't go back and save you. Why didn't you
do as you were told? Why didn't you just go home?
And what you got in the bag? Non-recognition is the
way to keep everything you want to hide. You stay on
that side now 'cause I won't, no I won't go back and
bail you out. Closer to the thing we had before. And
what you got in the bag? You were closer than you
thought. Closer than you thought you'd get. Don't you
worry that pretty head now. Never thought that's
what you'd get. Non-recognition is the... Why didn't
you do as you were told? Why didn't you just go
home? Now you're never coming back. You were
closer...

I know what you did. And now he's waiting. He knows
what you did too. You're not what you say you are. If
you were why was you head down in his car? It's just
not the same, try and try I'm still the last to know.
You get the sticker and the prize, you let me in - you
showed me how. That honey face complete with
pillow case. It just don't become you. Did you listen
when he spoke the gospel? You know St. Peter he's a
liar, and you're a liar. It's just not the same...